Community Living Association has been active in sponsoring the development of a range of community organisations; these include:

• Women With Intellectual and Learning Disabilities - Sexual Violence Prevention Service - originated with a group of women constituents of CLA called the WILD Women's Group.
• Nundah Community Centre - Developed through the work of CLA.
• Inner Northern Community Housing and Redback Housing - Affordable housing organisations developed through CLA.

Community Living Association has retained formal links with two of the organisations it sponsored. These formal links are by means of a Memorandum of Understanding. These two organisations are:

Independent Youth Housing Organisation (IYHG Pty Ltd)- A unique not for profit housing company managed by its tenants who are people with a disability. IYHG Publications include 'Brick by Brick' a history of IYHG.

Nundah Community Enterprises Co-operative (NCEC Pty Ltd) - Established by fifteen people with intellectual disabilities NCEC pioneered the concept and practice of 'social tendering' by negotiating with Brisbane City Council in 2000 for the maintenance contract on three council parks.

NCEC now provides employment through its Parks Division and Café Division.

Publications of the NCEC include:

• The Story of C
• Participation and Production: A resource for Community Enterprise
• Defining Social Enterprise: Enterprising ways to address long-term unemployment
• Social Enterprise and Social Tendering: A guide for Government Departments, Large Social Welfare Organisations and Corporations.

Community Living Association has sought to assist constituents build the economic capacity of their lives. Foresters ANA Mutual Society has assisted these endeavours with advice and support around micro finance projects such as 4US Savings and through housing, office and social enterprise financial investment.